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...Saturday approached, Lee realized the pain might be too severe for him to fly home for winter break. On Saturday morning, he went to UHS again where he received an injection of Demerol, a potent narcotic painkiller. He was given more morphine and was handed a Valium pill to take on the plane...
...actors must all have been on molasses and valium. They paused for five seconds between each speech, allowing the show to drag excruciatingly. The director, Leo Cabranes-Grant, ran the production according to the principle that anything said slowly enough is high drama. Not content with one intermission during the two-and-a-half-hour extravaganza, he threw in a second, just to flesh things out. Perhaps he wanted to give suicidal viewers an opportunity to make a bid for freedom. The acting was usually wooden, and the transparent attempts to throw in the odd whimsical flourish served only...
...kinds of things. I read a lot of books, and I went to some shrinks. The thing that helped me most was the 12-step group, the Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families. My mother was a Valium addict. What happened to me is a direct result of what happened to my mother and what happened to her in her house and in school...
...pick up its first non-Ivy win in two years, Harvard will need a good dose of luck today (a little valium in the Tribe water bottles wouldn't hurt either). But given that, Harvard has a few important tasks in particular to carry...
Advances are being made against virtually every affliction to which the human mind is prey. Generalized anxiety can be treated with surprising success with benzodiazepines like Valium, as well as with a new drug called BuSpar (buspirone). Manic depression was effectively treated with lithium long before anyone knew why it worked; now therapy is being fine-tuned with medications like the anticonvulsant Tegretol (carbamazepine) and drugs that ameliorate lithium's side effects. Debilitating panic attacks can be prevented with both antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Hyperactivity, addictive disorders, phobias, sleep disturbances, even dementia -- all are succumbing to the new science...